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CVE-2020-11087: Out-of-bounds Read in FreeRDP

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In FreeRDP less than or equal to 2.0.0, there is an out-of-bound read in ntlm_read_AuthenticateMessage. This has been fixed in 2.1.0.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• FreeRDP: before 2.1.0 — fixed in 2.1.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeRDP 2.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00080.html
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/8241ab42fdf0cc89cf69fc574bf6360c9977a0d4
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-84vj-g73m-chw7
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00080.html
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/8241ab42fdf0cc89cf69fc574bf6360c9977a0d4
• https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-84vj-g73m-chw7
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00008.html

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